Pro/con: E-cigarettes aren't tobacco, so don't treat them like they are

2:47 PM,
May 5, 2014

Electronic cigarettes could help smokes quit and get away from dangerous tobacco.

Written by

Gilbert Ross
Detroit Free Press guest writer

As the nation continues its fight against smoking - the most important, devastating cause of preventable disease and death in our country - it's a shame that the fight is no longer against the duplicities of Big Tobacco, but against the very people who fought the "tobacco wars" last century: the tobacco control movement.

While nearly a half-million American lives are claimed by cigarettes each year among the country's 40-million-plus smokers, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Federal Drug Administration the American Cancer Society and American Lung Association, ...